The global meeting of the Indigenous Peoples' Forum at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will convene prior to the 38th session of IFAD's Governing Council. The meeting will focus on indigenous food systems and sustainable development. The Forum, which institutionalizes IFAD's consultation and dialogue with indigenous peoples' representatives at the national, regional and international levels, held its first global meeting in 2013. In preparation for the second Forum, regional workshops took place in late 2014 in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America.

The 38th session of the Governing Council for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will focus on the theme 'Rural Transformation: Key to Sustainable Development'. The session will discuss topics including indigenous peoples and sustainable food systems, overcoming challenges to rural transformation through the post-2015 sustainable development goals, innovations in financial inclusion, and empowering women to transform rural areas. It will also include a briefing by Turkey on the G20 Presidency. The session will feature high-level officials as keynote speakers such as John Dramani Mahama, President of Ghana, His Majesty Tupou VI, King of Tonga, and Pier Carlo Padoan, Minister of Economy and Finance, Italy.

9 February 2015: The 2nd meeting of the fourth session of the structured expert dialogue (SED 4-2) took place in conjunction with the eighth part of the second session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action. At its final meeting, the SED completed its work by addressing, in a balanced manner, all remaining inputs to the 2013–2015 review, focusing on information sources other than those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

9 February 2015: The success of plans to end poverty and avert the worst impacts of climate change “will depend on accountable and transparent governments that engage people in decisions affecting them,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his opening remarks at the 2015 Government Summit. Ban called for a new model of global governance “that is ready for the future, accountable, transparent, inclusive and participatory.”

8 February 2015: The Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS), convening in New Delhi, India, for the 15th time, focused on theme ‘Sustainable Development Goals and Dealing with Climate Change.' The Summit brought together Heads of State and Government from approximately 20 countries, together with Nobel laureates, business leaders and academics, to provide inputs to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) process and on action on climate change.

6 February 2015: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) released the twenty-sixth edition of InFO News, which highlights expectations for international decisions supporting forests and forestry including through the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the negotiation of a new climate agreement under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

February 2015: The International Partnership on Mitigation and MRV and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) Low Emission Capacity Building (LECB) Programme launched a new round of the Global Good Practice Analysis (GPA 2.0) that will include good practice examples of mitigation-related activities in developing and industrialized countries. The first round of GPA examined mitigation actions in 21 developing countries worldwide.

8 February 2015: The Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) has begun the eighth part of its second session (ADP 2-8) in Geneva, Switzerland, and will continue meeting until 13 February. The conference is the first of several meetings to be held in 2015 under the UNFCCC in preparation for the Paris Climate Change Conference in December 2015. The Paris Conference is mandated to adopt “a protocol, another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force under the Convention applicable to all Parties” that is expected to be implemented in 2020.

5 February 2015: The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has published a regional report, titled ‘The Climate in Africa: 2013,' which examines temperatures, precipitation and extreme weather events in each of the continent's sub-regions.

5 February 2015: The European Commission (EC) published a Communication identifying overarching principles and key components of a global partnership to support the post-2015 development agenda, to inform EU positions ahead of the Third Financing for Development (FfD3) Conference and the Post-2015 Summit, and to contribute to the preparation of the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 21) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).